The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-01-21
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
CONGRESSIONAL

CONGRESSIONAL.
IL the Senate ON the 10th petitions were
presented for reduction OF internal revenue and
in regard TO the pending Interstate Commerce
bill Tho Senate concurred In the House
amendments to the bill to provide lands for the
Indians in severalty and then took up the Inter
state Commerce bill. Senators Beck and Cul-
lom spoke ct length In favor Of the conference
report and Senator Stanford against It After an
executive session the Senate sdjourned... In the
House, after the receipt of . communication
from the Secretary Of the Treasury in reply 70
the resolution asking for an Interpretation Of
the tariff law respecting the duty on fish, bills
were introduced, among them tfll BY Mf MOT
rin Of Kansas, to place lumber and salt on the
free list, and by Mr.. Peters, Of Kansas. author
fzing the erection Of public buildings in towns
where the gross receipts Of the Government are
$4,000. The floor was then given to the
District of Columbia Committee, and after the
passage of several District measures the House
adjourned.
TEE Senate on the 18th took up, amended
and passed the House bill for the relief Of set
tiers and purchasers of land in Kansas and Ne
brasks. The bill appropriates $4,000 to reim-
burse those who had to pay the Northern Kan
sas railroad for their lands. At twelve o'clock
the Senate resumed consideration Of the Inter
state Commerce bill, debate on which continued
until adjournment. ;. In the House committees
reported and the bill sppropriating money to
purchase Q site and erect public building At
Charleston, 8. c., was considered. In Commit
tee Of the Whole the House took up the bill
creating Department of Agriculture and La
bcr, and the bill was finally reported to the
House and passed. The bill to amend the act
to establish the Bureau Of Animal Industry was
taken up and debated until adjournment.
In the Senate on the 18th Mr.. Hoar re-
ported the bill to extend the time for filing
claims in the Court of Claims, under the French
Spoliation act, twelve months. Mr.. Allison re-
ported back an appropriation bill with amend
ments. The bill amending the statutes
in regard to the renting or selling Of Gov
eminent property was taken up and passed.
Debate on the Interstate Commerce bill
was then resumed and continued
until adjournment. In the House, after
routine work, the special order, the Edmunds
i-Polygamy bill and Mr.. fuckers substitute,
then came up, and after q lengthy debate the
substitute was agreed to, and the bill Is amend
ed passed without q division, only eight men,
bers rising to demand the yeas and nays. Ad-
tourned.
In the Senate on the 18th committees re
ported, and Mr.. Vests resolution directing the
Secretary Of the Treasury to furnish a full and
complete statement by itemized accounts Of
prosecutions Of criminal cases in State courts
by Federal oflcials from July 1, 1879, to Decem-
Der 1, 1885, and the amount paid them, was
modified at the suggestion OF Mr.. Edmunds SO
as to include civil cases and then adopted. De-
bate on the Interstate Commerce bill was then
resumed, and occupied most of the day. The
Senate disagreed to the House amend
ment to the -Polygamy bill and
a conference was appointed. Adjourned. In
the House, after routine business. the bill passed
amending the law regulating the removal of
causes from State to Federal courts by increas-
ing the amount from $500 to g, 600, and making
other restrictions as to removing such causes,
among them depriving United States District
Courts OF jurisdiction in civil suits between cor
porations and the citizen Of State. The bill
also passed providing for the bringing OF suits
against the Government. Adjourned.
AFTER the Senate had disposed of pre-
Gminary work on the 14th the conference report
on the bill making an annual appropriation to
provide arms and equipments for the militia,
reducing the appropriation from 100000 to
$4,000, was agreed to and the conference re-
port on the Interstate Commerce bill was again
taken up and the debate was resumed and
continued until near midnight, when q decisive
decisive vote was finally reached and the re-
port was agreed to and the bill passed by q yeas
10 Is nays. Adjourned till Monday. In the
House the day was devoted to the private cal
endar. The conference reports on the Elect
oral Count bill and the bill increasing the ap.
preparation for public building at Fort Scott,
Kan, to $4,000 were agreed to. Many private
Whole and passed and at the evening session
twenty -four pension bills passed.
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